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PaulaMc Jun 2021 2:40pm, 7 Jun 2021 10,496 posts	0 PaulaMc Thanks, runnyeyes. We are hoping to have lunch at L’Enclume one day - we are treating it as the 30th wedding anniversary celebration that we had to forgo last summer, certainly not something we would usually do. Other than wildly expensive restaurants, are there any other tourist trap places/activities we should try to avoid?
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Jun 2021 2:44pm, 7 Jun 2021 40,974 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Paula - not many, really. Bowness on Windermere, the summit of Coniston Old Man ... the followers of this thread could probably put together a top ten places to avoid in high season!
CumbriAndy Jun 2021 2:55pm, 7 Jun 2021 2,441 posts	0 CumbriAndy Midweek in September - even Bowness should be tolerable, though that's best reached by boat from Lakeside having got off the steam train from Haverthwaite, just up the road from Cark. Other than that, it's really quite hard to think of places not to visit.
♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Jun 2021 2:56pm, 7 Jun 2021 40,975 posts	0 ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ Ah! I missed the reference to September.
stilldreaming Jun 2021 3:50pm, 7 Jun 2021 652 posts	0 stilldreaming [CumbriAndy - would the steam trains be running midweek in September? Maybe just weekends by then?].
PaulaMc Jun 2021 4:36pm, 7 Jun 2021 10,497 posts	0 PaulaMc Thanks 😊
phal Jun 2021 4:50pm, 7 Jun 2021 3,615 posts	0 phal Oh wow - L'Enclume is fab. We had our post-wedding-evening dinner there and stayed as a proper treat and present from friends, it will be epic.
phal Jun 2021 4:51pm, 7 Jun 2021 3,616 posts	0 phal You have already booked it, haven't you???
Mushroom Jun 2021 5:06pm, 7 Jun 2021 1,673 posts	0 Mushroom [Failing that - just call in to the Sticky Toffee Pudding shop in Cartmel - delicious!]
rf_fozzy Jun 2021 7:13pm, 7 Jun 2021 14,689 posts	0 rf_fozzy Is L'Enclume one of these fantastically expensive places I could never afford to eat?!

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